At Gitmo, ‘Fresh Prince’ replaces Harry Potter as entertainment most requested by detainees

President Obama isn't closing Guantánamo any time soon, but prisoners will be well-taken-care-of in the entertainment department, according to this Miami Herald article: they have an endless supply of of Will Smith’s 1990s TV comedy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with which to while away the years. The sitcom has become a "popular way to pass time among the 168 captives now in their second decade of U.S. detention." Guards say it now eclipses the Harry Potter books as most-requested entertainment. (via @kgosztola)

Will Smith borrowed a time traveling humanoid robot from the MIB archives (on loan from Dr. Who, who no longer needed it after getting killed in Utah). He quickly shrank himself in order to pilot the robot back to Hawaii. There, he forged a birth certificate, and (using his knowledge of future events) positioned himself for a 2008 run for president. He won and would have become president, but was secretly replaced by a miniature Dick Cheney in Dec 2008.

Kinda reminds me how Buddhist monks love watching Star Trek TOS.
Easy to visualize the monks sitting and smiling while Spock mind-melds with Chekov and chants “The bullets… are in your mind. They are not real. They are figments of your imagination, they cannot harm you…”